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FLYING BRICK

SOME people are good at picking their parents, like Melbourne’s Scott Gercovich, the creator of this tough urban bruiser. “I’ve had a passion for all things two-wheeled since I got my first bike, a Honda Z50R, when I was about five,” he says. “But of course, as you grow older, the bikes got bigger until I could finally get my motorcycle licence and buy my first road bike. I have never looked back.”

That journey eventually led the now 46-year-old Scott to hyper sports bikes like the Honda CBR954RR and BMW S1000RR, until an overwhelming urge to scratch an itch took him down a different path.

“I’ve always had a fascination with café racer builds

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